Mars and Martians is a sweeping 30+ hour journey across the red planet—where explorers land with hope, settlers fight to survive, and something ancient watches from the dust.From the golden age of science fiction comes an extraordinary collection of 60 stories that imagine Mars in every possible form: a frontier, a battlefield, a mystery, a memory. Ray Bradbury’s haunting visions sit alongside Isaac Asimov’s sharp ideas, Philip K. Dick’s unsettling encounters, and ...

In the great age of classic science fiction, writers kept returning to one world more than any other — a place of thin air, endless horizons, and secrets buried beneath red dust.Mars and Martians and Nothing But Mars and Martians 2 brings together twenty remarkable vintage stories from the 1930s through the 1960s — tales of explorers, settlers, scientists, wanderers, and the strange beings who may already call Mars home.Some stories are ten...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Discover the extraordinary life and enduring legacy of Alan Turing, the brilliant British mathematician, logician, and computer scientist, who revolutionized the world of science and technology.His pioneering contributions in mathematics, logic, and computer science changed our understanding of the universe and laid the foundation for modern cryptography. His commitment to justice and his ultimate triumph in the...

Discover the extraordinary life and enduring legacy of Alan Turing, the brilliant British mathematician, logician, and computer scientist, who revolutionized the world of science and technology. His pioneering contributions in mathematics, logic, and computer science changed our understanding of the universe and laid the foundation for modern cryptography. His commitment to justice and his ultimate triumph in the face of adversity will move and inspire readers. This biography will ...

Envy is a vicious and shameful response to the good fortune of others, one that ruins friendships and plagues societies—or so the common thinking goes, shaped by millennia of religious and cultural condemnation. Envy’s bad reputation is not completely unwarranted; envy can indeed motivate malicious and counterproductive behavior and may strain or even tear apart relations between people. However, that is not always the case. Investigating the complex nature of this emotion reveals that it ...

This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of the Holocaust has been passed along inter-generationally from survivors to the second-generation—the children of survivors—to a contemporary generation of grandchildren of survivors—those writers who have come of literary age at a time that will mark the end of direct survivor testimony. This coll...

"... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent University When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, ...

"Der Weltraum, unendliche Weiten. Wir schreiben das Jahr 2200. Dies sind die Abenteuer des Raumschiffs Enterprise …" Ganze Generationen kennen diese magischen Worte, die jede Folge der bekanntesten Science-Fiction-Serie der Welt einleiten - Star Trek, in Deutschland besser bekannt als Raumschiff Enterprise. Kommandant des Sternenkreuzers war William Shatner alias Captain James T. Kirk. 1962 hatte er im B-Movie "Weißer Terror" von Roger Corman noch einen hasserfüllten Rassisten im tiefsten ...

"Der Weltraum, unendliche Weiten. Wir schreiben das Jahr 2200. Dies sind die Abenteuer des Raumschiffs Enterprise …" Ganze Generationen kennen diese magischen Worte, die jede Folge der bekanntesten Science-Fiction-Serie der Welt einleiten - Star Trek, in Deutschland besser bekannt als Raumschiff Enterprise. Kommandant des Sternenkreuzers war William Shatner alias Captain James T. Kirk. 1962 hatte er im B-Movie Weißer Terror von Roger Corman noch einen hasserfüllten Rassisten im tiefsten Sü...

This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world. Each of the chapters-organized under six headings-tells an authentic, compelling story of a pioneering and successful initiative that breaks the traditional mold of instructional delivery and time-honored school organization. Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization guides readers thr...

The ON CALL Series*Concise and portable for “on-the-spot” treatment advice*Comprehensive overview of the initial evaluation and treatment*Features the most frequently encountered problems in a specialty*Includes laboratory and diagnostic tests, procedures, and commonly used medications*Perfect for residents and students on the wardsOver 80 of the most common internal medicine problems. Thoroughly revised to reflect current practic...

With over 200 individual fact citations into over 100 different sources, Kings of Tort has been impeccably researched. It used primary sources like the highly acclaimed book by Michael Orey entitled Assuming the Risk and Dan Zegart's book Civil Warriors. The book has also sourced information via articles from publications and media outlets such as the Clarion Ledger, the Sun Herald, the Northeast MS Daily Journal, WLBT, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washi...